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NEWSNOTES
 SHATRUGHAN
SINHA
Filmstar and BJP MP on whether he plans to join the Congress
Q. Is your recent criticism of the BJP only
to get another term in the Rajya Sabha?
A.
I am the No. 1 crowdpuller for the party. If after seven cabinet expansions
I don't find a place, then it says more about how the party treats its
loyal members than I can. A Rajya Sabha seat is
no big deal.
Q. So would you join the Congress?
A. It
is a party with history and great leaders. I have a lot of respect for
it. I have good friends in the party like Kamal Nath. I am in no hurry
to decide.
Q. You have never targeted Sonia's Italian
origins.
A. She
is the widow of Rajiv Gandhi and daughter-in-law of Indira Gandhi. What
more could she have done to naturalise and accept India as her country?
By rejecting her we are in fact rejecting our own past prime ministers.
Even within the BJP I have always criticised the 'foreigner' issue.
Q. In your play Pati, Patni Aur Main you
have not spared Atal Bihari Vajpayee or Pramod Mahajan but praised Vilasrao
Deshmukh, Shiela Dikshit and Digvijay Singh of the Congress? Are BJP leaders
not good enough?
A.
Well it is only a play and good natured sarcasm. I have the greatest respect
for L.K. Advani. Arun Jaitley, Mahajan and Sushma Swaraj are good friends.
—Neeraj Mishra
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